The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement is a 2011 live video album by the English rock band Radiohead, comprising songs their eighth album, The King of Limbs (2011). It was Radiohead's second performance for the series From the Basement, following In Rainbows – From the Basement (2008). Radiohead's producer, Nigel Godrich, described it as an effort to record a different version of TheKing of Limbs and show it in a "different light".
Godrich said that whereas The King of Limbs was "was very mechanised", the performance was "a very conscious attempt to do something special: to record the album again, once it had been rehearsed and played live, to show it in a different light".[2]
Release
The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement was broadcast on several TV channels internationally.[1] The performances of "The Daily Mail" and "Staircase" were released as singles in 2011.[3]
Reviewing The King of Limbs: Live From the Basement for AllMusic, Gregory Heaney wrote that "the session feels like the perfect environment for Radiohead to perform in, allowing them the freedom to relax and experiment with their sound without the pressure of a massive stadium audience to distract them from their music".[4] In a 2015 article for Stereogum, Ryan Leas argued that it was superior to The King of Limbs: "You hear muscle and movement and bodies existing where the now tapped-out ingenuity of Radiohead’s electronic impulses has begun to make their recorded music brittle."[5]
